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Gardner, Gregg Elliot.

Giving to the poor in early rabbinic Judaism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Giving to the poor in early rabbinic Judaism.
Author:	Gardner, Gregg Elliot.
Description:	257 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-07, Section: A, page: 2561.
Notes:	Adviser: Peter Schafer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-07A.
Subject:	Religion, Biblical Studies.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3364534
ISBN:	9781109252842

Giving to the poor in early rabbinic Judaism.
Gardner, Gregg Elliot.

Giving to the poor in early rabbinic Judaism. - 257 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-07, Section: A, page: 2561.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2009.

This study examines Hebrew legal and exegetical texts from third-fourth century C.E. Palestine in order to understand assistance to the poor in early rabbinic Judaism. It seeks to elucidate how the redactors of early rabbinic literature envisioned the process of giving, the givers, the recipients, and the items given. Because these texts constitute foundational works of Jewish religious law, their analyses will illuminate the origins of Judaism's approaches to the poor, charity, and social justice.

ISBN: 9781109252842Subjects--Topical Terms:

212595
Religion, Biblical Studies.

Giving to the poor in early rabbinic Judaism.
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520 $a This project focuses on Mishnah Peah and Tosefta Peah, two tractates of legal discourse that elaborate upon the offerings to the poor mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. These texts are read closely in light of their literary contexts and comparative, contemporaneous works including selections from other tractates of the Mishnah and Tosefta, as well as exegetical texts (i.e. the Tannaitic or halakhic midrashim). Ideas from the humanities and social sciences are employed for heuristic purposes. These texts are also contextualized within the social, economic, and political environment of Roman Palestine.
520 $a I find that early rabbinic literature offers a variety of prescriptions for poverty that vary according to the benefactor's means, the poor's needs, and the socio-economic environment. These solutions range from duty-bound systems of social justice to acts of charity that are subject to the giver's discretion. There is also a middle ground in which aid is given through institutions, such as the soup kitchen and communal fund. Throughout, I demonstrate how these remedies for poverty are constructed in ways that are idiosyncratic to and serve the needs of the early rabbinic movement. As part of an expansionist-minded movement seeking realms in which to gain legitimacy, the rabbinic redactors of these texts present a vision of giving to the poor that asserts their own authority over the almsgiving process. I argue that these texts, which serve as the foundations of all subsequent Jewish approaches to the poor, were formulated to remedy poverty as well as promote the early rabbinic movement's own claims to authority.
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